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Show Florida to Celebrate New Prosperity As Tourists Biw State $2'50,000,QC3 . ( -'X. 19jO 1951 ''551 "53 '"4 -..i . i m, th r,, worst,. ., , $ Jer J-'ilh .iw.,, of a billion dollars in new cash JinglinS in Its Joans and business barometers J1' '' " Hvc year. Florida is taking a dav off on May "i to honor its early developers and a P te c t.-cn , to ivhom I. ' Sribut ils nr prosperity lie is Col Henrv L. Dohertv, whose state-wide plan for recovery. Floridians say has be. !-P0..Mc ir JtrZl seton in "the state's history. Pictures show io-n n" 1 "hcrly lef ti ,d frner Gov James M Cox of Ohio. Miami publisher. Right Inset, graph of Greater Miami buiid.i.g rrrmil trial, fo January Febkry and March showing the trend to permanent recovery In Florida MIAMI Fly . qtiaiioi nl a billion J! ,!r-- 1,1 new v;ii in pockets and , ,'nc"s ,n:-:- P:w up.vard in the 'e of i-it i;i..:ti nun i:;l eason m 1 ;or.v I :i )n-'.n inj; to take a ' v oi; t,, , , , L;i;l' -i.:tuiction n-veals 'I' lea;, up r.u p.r rent over last J hi'' ':eaiiiv;s and real es-val"' es-val"' .-oar n. tw hi;hosl levels in 'HMrly I've years Fj,., ,,) ,s makmj! ejdy lo lumor tlu- dvnastv ol Hcnrvs lo ymm n ,nin'.-.l,;cs rs prnspeiitv and The Him lvu, Hrvs, H,,n,.v H Flap-" Flap-" and honry R P.,llt ,aii,.(,ad build-, build-, ani1 C'tomzcrs. con be honored onlv "memory Bin Henrv 111. Col Henrv Dohertv. who has carried on Florida's 7 lorment. introducing new resort i vacation formulas and pouring nearly a n-,li0n dollars into expansion 'hp tourist industry, lias been asked 'ecnve (he acclaim of the state for i tSnnd Umo in less lhan two vcars J n Marc''- 1933. Florida observed the I lirsl state-wide Doherty Day in tribute to the man Floridians credit with single-handedly single-handedly starting them on the road to ! prosperity In March. 1934. with the I state enjoying the greatest affluence in ! eight vears. a second All-Florida Doher- tv Dav was proposed but Henry III de-i de-i c'lined to accept the tribute for himself I and requested that the day be re-dedi-I cated to all Florida pioneers and developers devel-opers The celebration, sponsored by a committee of Florida publishers and business leaders, will be held on May 5 and will take the form of a state-wide Figures alreadv compiled by the Doherty Dav Committee from federal, state, municipal and private records graphically chart the extent of the new prosperity which has come to the slate, largolv under the impetus. Floridians believe, of the planninR and energy ot Henry L Dohertv and the others who lent a helping hand two years ago when the future looked darkest. Accordine to J B Sullivan, state ho tel commissioner, r lonaa uuring ins-last ins-last season entertained more than 1.500.000 tourists who spent $250,000 C0u vacationing in the midwinter sun In the Greater Miami area, building permits increased 319. over the firs: three months of 1933. and 4S0-r in Miami Beach alone where Sl.3CC.Gf"! worth of new construction has been reported re-ported in the first three months of lj:;-t. compared to $223,685 for the same period pe-riod last year. In St. Petersburg, building build-ing construction is up 10". with ST95 000 for the last six months compared to $725,000 for the same period a year a.;o Bank clearings for Greater Miami gained-65"r in the first quarter of li'34 over the first quarter of 1933 Real estate es-tate values are up from 15 to 30' and sales have totalled $5,000,000 since December, De-cember, more than in the previous two vears combined. A gain of S60.CO0.000 in Greater Miami real estate values is estimated esti-mated by local realtors, who compare the season's activity to the 1923 stirrings of the Big Boom. |
